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Volume 10, Number 2 - Fall 2007

Cover Credit:

Cristall (fl. 1798)
The Fish Market on The Beach
Watercolor, early 19th century,
Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, Great Britain
London / Art Resource, NY

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Editorial
Stephen J. Grabill 257 Leonard Lessius and the Prehistory of Economics
Article
Mary Ann Glendon 263 John Paul II’s Challenges to the Social Sciences
John R. Schneider 279 Christian Theology and the Human Ontology of Market Capitalism
Donald P. Condit 299 Should Business Be Responsible for Employee Health Care?
Edward J. O'Boyle 321 Requiem for Homo Economicus
339 Unrighteous Stewards in Biblical and Modern Times
John Meadowcroft 357 Altruism, Self-Interest, and the Morality of the Private Sector: An Austrian Approach
Review
Michel Therrian 377 Review of "Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good" by Mary M. Keys
Oskari Juurikkala 380 Review of "Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy" by Philip Booth
Kevin E. Schmiesing 382 Review of “The Imperative of Self-Reliance for the Churches in Africa”; “Contextual Application of Christian Social Teaching on Political Ethics”; “Examining the Foundations of Solidarity in the Social Encyclicals of John Paul II”
Paul Seaton 385 Review of "Natural-Law Liberalism" by Christopher Wolfe
Marc D. Guerra 388 Review of "Catholicism and Religious Freedom: Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Liberty" edited by Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunter
E. Calvin Beisner 391 Review of "A Greener Faith" by Roger S. Gottlieb and "Sacramental Commons" by John Hart
Jim Wishloff 397 Review of "Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics: An Anthology" edited by Thomas O'Brien and Scott Paeth
John Lunn 399 Review of "The Challenge of Affluence" by Avner Offer
Leonard P. Liggio 401 Review of "The Commercial Society" by Samuel Gregg
Vanessa Pierce Rollins 403 Review of "The Intellectual Property Debate-Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Political Economy" edited by Meir Perez Pugatch
Adel S. Abadeer 404 Review of "Human Rights and Capitalism" edited by Janet Dine and Andrew Fagan
John Larrivee 407 Review of "The Bourgeois Virtues" by Deirdre McCloskey
Edd S. Noell 411 Review of "Adam’s Fallacy" by Duncan Foley
Francis Woehrling 414 Review of "Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy" by Jerry Evensky
Andrew Schein 418 Review of "Temples, Tithes, and Taxes" by Marty E. Stevens
Christopher Westley 419 Review of "The Marketplace of Christianity" by Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert F. Hebert, and Robert D. Tollison
Julio H. Cole 422 Review of "Milton Friedman: A Biography" by Lanny Ebenstein
Johannes Graf 425 Review of "The Cambridge Companion to Hayek" edited by Edward Fesser
Samuel Gregg 428 Review of "God and Caesar" by Cardinal George Pell, with M. A. Casey (editor)
Scholia
435 Contents
Wim Decock 437 Introduction
Leonardus Lessius 463 Dubitatio 1: Definition of Buying, Selling, and Business
Leonardus Lessius 466 Dubitatio 2: The Equal or Just Price of Saleable Goods
Leonardus Lessius 470 Dubitatio 3: Is It Allowed for the Owner of a Good That Does Not Have a Legal or Common Price (e.g., Certain Gems, Special Dogs or Falcons, Exotic Birds, Ancient Paintings, etc.) to Sell It at Any Price He Wants?
Leonardus Lessius 472 Dubitatio 4: Is It Licit in Some Cases to Sell a Good Dearer or Buy It Cheaper Than It Is Worth?[21]
Leonardus Lessius 482 Dubitatio 5: Is It Allowed for Me to Sell at the Current Price Even Though I Know That the Price of the Good Is About to Fall?
Leonardus Lessius 488 Dubitatio 6: Is the Seller Allowed to Charge a Higher Price If He Is Selling on Credit?
Leonardus Lessius 492 Dubitatio 7: Is the Buyer Allowed to Offer Less Because of Advance Payment?
Leonardus Lessius 496 Dubitatio 8: Is It Allowed to Buy a Bill of Debtor Bond below Its Nominal Value? For Example, You Now Buy at 96 or 97 Guildersa Right on Payment of 100 Due Next Year
Leonardus Lessius 501 Dubitatio 9: Is It Allowed Sometimes to Buy Bills of Debt, Also Known As Libranciae, at Half the Price in Case Payment Is Difficult or Uncertain to Obtain?
Leonardus Lessius 503 Dubitatio 11: Is a Seller Obliged to Reveal a Defect in the Good He Wants to Sell?
Leonardus Lessius 509 Dubitatio 16: Is the Mutual Sale-Purchase of the Same Good at a Different Price, a Practice Known by the Spaniards as Baratae-Mohatrae, Licit?
Leonardus Lessius 511 Dubitatio 21: Are All Kinds of Monopoly Unjust?
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